Add spinner, a small util that draws a spinning ASCII character to keep ssh and telnet connections from dropping due to inactivity.

PR:		46289
Submitted by:	Michael L. Hostbaek <mich@freebsdcluster.org>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

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+Spinner is a small program that displays a little "spinning" ASCII 
+character in the top left corner of your terminal. To make this effect 
+it cycles through punctuation marks like this " - \ | / - \ | / ... " 
+(try it to see). By default the character is drawn in inverse video 
+(or your terminal's equivalent). But you can turn this off with the -i 
+switch. It supports any terminal capable of handling VT100 style escape codes.
+
+Spinner is useful for keeping telnet and ssh links from dropping due to 
+inactivity. Many firewalls, and some ISPs drop connections when they are 
+perceived as idle. By having spinner running the server is constantly 
+sending a tiny amount of data over the link, preserving the connection. 
+Thus (for search engines) Spinner is an anti-dle, timeout preventing, 
+background daemon process for unix variants including linux.
+
+WWW: http://www.laffeycomputer.com/spinner.html
+
+	- Michael L. Hostbaek
+	mich@freebsdcluster.org